MSCA fellow wins the Chemistry category in the “Dance your PhD” challenge

MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions) fellow Shari Finner, also known as @emily_electron, won the Chemistry category of this year's "Dance your PhD" competition.

She successfully transmitted her PhD through a choreography in which groups of dancers represented Electrons and Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs).

Ms Finner, from the Department of Applied Physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology, is working on a PhD project on “Percolation Theory - Conducting Plastics”. Her research consists of using percolation to calculate the number of nanoparticles needed to form a, possibly transparent, nanocomposite and achieve electrical conductivity.

She is also involved in the ITN (Innovative Training Networks) project DiStruc and is no stranger to creativity when it comes to presenting her research on conducting plastics. "When I published my first article, I sang at a conference about my research while playing on a ukulele. After this, I was regularly asked if I would also start dancing my PhD. I was familiar with the concept ‘Dance your PhD’ already, but I had never seriously considered joining it", she said.

Congratulations to Ms Finner for her outstanding performance!